I know what it feels like to have a relative with major medical needs and with medical problems. My grandmother, last year, was diagnosed with Alzheimers and it was very sad. And the sad thing about it was she knew she had it and she always got mad at herself and had the strive to remember things. Last year she was, from what I knew, healthy, and happily living life. She loved my brother and I as little kids. She’d give us all the love you could possibly want: bought toys for us, video games, and all of the above. A couple years back when I was in preschool, she told me this story that she was driving and I had forgotten my lunch box. So she drove back to my school and retrieved my lunch. On the way back she took a wrong turn and my brother and I got very confused. At this point Austin and I lead her back home but that was just the start.
When she didn’t have Alzheimer's she was normal, working, driving and all of the above. Now she can barely speak and can’t walk or drive or do anything a typical adult would be able to do. Alzheimer's is just a slow deterioration of someone and makes people’s lives turn upside down. It is such a tragedy because was so successful in her job and was such a hard worker and after retirement it struck her. My grandmother is still alive and well and living her life but definitely not the way she imagined it. She is now confined to a wheelchair the rest of her life and cannot function without someone’s assistance. My grandmother used to speak to me over the telephone back when we had a land line and she used to tell poems to me through what we called “our favorite book” which was a book of poems that we always read before we went to bed.
I always used to love reading poems with my grandmother and I will always remember it. Alzheimers is just a slow deterioration of someone’s life and is a terrible disease. It depletes your memories and other important mental and physical functions. My grandmother cannot walk in the night time because she is so tired by the end of the day. The only time she can walk is in the morning and barely, she has to have someone by her side at all times and if she is left for a second she can get injured very badly. One night my parents decided to give my grandfather a break and my grandmother came over to our house for a day and my dad was talking to my grandma and told her to stay there and don’t move but she didn’t understand. So she held on for a second and fell and hit her head on the floor. Luckily it wasn’t a hard fall and she just had a bruise but she was in so much pain because after a minute she forgot what had happened and didn’t know why she was hurt. She luckily hasn’t forgotten me or anyone in my family yet and I hope that she’ll never forget anyone.
As my grandmother goes day by day she is sort of the same and never really changes. The only change was that last year she got a lot worse but could still function. I love my grandmother whether she knows it or not and I know that deep down she does and loves all of my family.
When she didn’t have Alzheimer's she was normal, working, driving and all of the above. Now she can barely speak and can’t walk or drive or do anything a typical adult would be able to do. Alzheimer's is just a slow deterioration of someone and makes people’s lives turn upside down. It is such a tragedy because was so successful in her job and was such a hard worker and after retirement it struck her. My grandmother is still alive and well and living her life but definitely not the way she imagined it. She is now confined to a wheelchair the rest of her life and cannot function without someone’s assistance. My grandmother used to speak to me over the telephone back when we had a land line and she used to tell poems to me through what we called “our favorite book” which was a book of poems that we always read before we went to bed.
I always used to love reading poems with my grandmother and I will always remember it. Alzheimers is just a slow deterioration of someone’s life and is a terrible disease. It depletes your memories and other important mental and physical functions. My grandmother cannot walk in the night time because she is so tired by the end of the day. The only time she can walk is in the morning and barely, she has to have someone by her side at all times and if she is left for a second she can get injured very badly. One night my parents decided to give my grandfather a break and my grandmother came over to our house for a day and my dad was talking to my grandma and told her to stay there and don’t move but she didn’t understand. So she held on for a second and fell and hit her head on the floor. Luckily it wasn’t a hard fall and she just had a bruise but she was in so much pain because after a minute she forgot what had happened and didn’t know why she was hurt. She luckily hasn’t forgotten me or anyone in my family yet and I hope that she’ll never forget anyone.
As my grandmother goes day by day she is sort of the same and never really changes. The only change was that last year she got a lot worse but could still function. I love my grandmother whether she knows it or not and I know that deep down she does and loves all of my family.